The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5635. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY FI:BRUARY 5 I93l MLMBER OF ASSOC]ATI:D PRESS PRICE “TEN CENTS DROUGHT FAILS T0 BREAK; CONTINUES WIDE SECTION NEW TREMORS TOPPLE WALLS QUAKE REGION Populace of New Zealand | Cities to Be Moved to Open Spaces APPEAL IS MADE TO RAILROAD SYSTEMS Death Toll Continues to, Mount—One Thousand Believed Killed NAPIER, New Zealand, Fcb. 5—New tremors toppled stand- ing - buildings about rescue squads today, here and at Hast- ings, and speeded complete evacuation of the cities. An appeal has been sent to the railrcads at Wellington to furnish rolling stock to remove the populace to camps where the sufferers of the quake and fires can be cared for until sanitary conditions are re- stored. The death toll is mounting and it is believed the total will be in advance of 1,000 with several thousand injured. R | : l ALASKAN SCOUTS ‘ REC::.IVE HONORS Three Boy Scouts of Cordova, Alaska, were p: Associated Press Photo iented gold medals for their heroism in rescuing six helpless children from Lake Eyak. | Left to right: Lou Cochran, Jerry Cochran and Phillip Lydick. BATTLE FLEET T0 WORK OUT | COMES TO END; BIG PRI]BI.EM Defense of Canal Zones to Be Demonstrated by American Navy SAN PEDRO, Cal, Feb. 5.—Sixty- three ships of the Battle Fleet FULL CHARGES AGAINST GEN. | BUTLER FILED Will Not Be Made Public, |await the signal to start on the “most pretentious scouting prob- lem every attempted by the Amer- ican Navy.” The fleet will become known as HAVANA STRIKE UNIONS RETURN Labor Leaders Under Ar-' rest Are Released from Jails HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 5—The so0- called general strike of over a doz- en labor groups, terminated last night with no diserders reported. The various unions walked out in protest to Congress authorizing President Machado to suspend the WICKERSHAMTO MAKE SPEECHES \Will Be Main S Speakers at| Capitol Dedication, Chamber Is Told Gov. George A, Parks and Dele- gate-elect Judge James Wicker- sham will be the principal speak- ers at the Capital dedication cere- {monies which will be held here February 14-15 under the auspices |of the Chamber of Commerce, it was made known today by H. L. | Faulkner, in a report for the Ded- | ication Committee to the Chamber. | | The Capitol will be formally opened at 8 p.m, Saturday, Febru- Jary 14, when \"au S\mda; afternoon. Ready for Ceremonies While the complete program was not announced, Mr. Faulkner said the Committee had everything in readiness for the dedication. The High School orchestra will parti- | cipate. The famous Metlakatla |choir is due here about that time and it is expected will appear on ‘Lhe program. Dr. W. W. Council, | President of the Chamber, will pre- |side at the dedication. The program will be held in the quarters to be occupied by the Alaska Museum and Historical Li- brary, which will not move into the new building until after the formal opening. The entire struc- ture will be thrown open to the ‘general public on both days. COV.PARKSAND | the dedication will | Cencluding rites will be held | the Black Fleet attacking the Pan- constitutional guarantees indefinite- ama Canal and the projected Ni- ly. caraguan Canal. The areas of the two canals will be defended by the Blue Fleet of Promote Marine Ways After two years of futile effort Following termination of the|to interest outside capital in the strike, labor leaders who had becn |establishment of a marine ways {arrested, were released. here, the Chamber's Local Indus- | — 'SENATE FIGHT ON SMITH TO 60 TO COURTS Legal Proceedings Will Test Right of Chairman to Hold Position POWER COMMISSIONER UNDER BiTTER ATTACK | HUNGRY OKLAHOMANS RAID GROCERY Y, RS 0 W To Restnct Foreign Oil For 3 Years Senate Commerce Commit- tee Reports Favorable on Capper Bill | Associated Press Photo Above is Interior of Oklahoma City grocery after mob of hungry demonstrators raided it for food. The srowd was dispersed by police who used tear gas bombs. Twenty-seven were arrested. DEADLOCK OVER DROUGHT RELIEF MAY BE BROKEN Pronosal Is Made Which May Avert Extra Ses- . WARM WEATHER, DRY SPELL HAS BROKEN RECORD Past Week Lstabhshes New Mark for Present Season of Year MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IS LACKING MOISTURE Water Shortage Reported in Two States as Re- sult of No Rainfall WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5. —'l'ho drcught of 1930 still per- frem the Agricultural Departie nt characterized last week as cne of the driest and warmest ¢n record for this sea- son cf the year. There was a decidedly lack of moisture over large areas, es- pecially in the Mississippi Val- ley. Eastward over Ohio and the Potomac the situation re- mains acute. . Many complaints of water shortage have been received from Arkansas and Oklahoma where there has been no rain- fall. RUTH GARRISON GIVEN FREEDOM AFTER 12 YEARS WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5— The Senate Commerce Committee has approved of a bill to restrict importation of foreign olls. The sion of Congress APPROPRIATION MAY 1137 surface ships, 274 aircraft in- cluding the dirigible Los Angeles and with 2,900 officers and 33,000 men. The Blue Fleet includes the air-| plane carriers Lexington and Sara- toga. The problem is expected to show |the strength or weaknesses of the Icannl defenses DIXIE HAS T Says Secretary of Navy Adams BULLETIN-~Washington, D. C., Feb. 5.—Secretary of Navy Charles F. Adams late today sald he does not intend to make public the charges against Gen. Smedley D. Butler. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5.—j ‘With copies of the formal charges against Gen. Smedley D. Butler served on him, the Marine and Navy Departments had in hand the question whether the charges will be made public or not. At the same time, Cornelius Vanderbilt, in Phoenix, Arizona, said Gen. But- ler misquoted him in telling of the Mussolini incident. The Navy Department prevlous]y] had said publication was up to Gen. Butler. Counsel for Gen. But- ler told the Navy and Marine he| ATLANTA, Feb. 5.—Seven south- neither sough) publication nor | €T conference basketball teams sought to avold or prevent pubh_<have new coaches this season. cation, but thought the Navy De-| Charles “Dusty” Rhodes is the partment should decide. third mentor for Virginia Poly in as many years. Ed Walker, who, took over the football duties az | Mississippi last fall, also has charge of the basketeers. Gus Tebell, who MONTANA CREEK CASE REAC}'IES JURY TODAY brought North Carolina State a |southern title in 1929, has moved Charged with destruction ollover to Virginia. property on miping claims in Mon-, Kentucky, which made tana Creek valley and with taking basketball showing in personal property out of a cabin iniundertakes a new that district, Raymond B K.|Adolph Rupp. Dr. Burcham and Frank Bal this athletic director of North Caro-/ afternoon were awaiting the out- lina State, has taken over the bas- come of a trial which has occupied ketball team, since no coach has most of the past two days in the been named to succeed Tebell. United States district court before| Auburn or Alabama Poly, has Judge Justin W. Harding. ’Sam McAllister, three-sport star The three men are alleged to from St. Viator college, while Ray | have destroyed sluice boxes and Elleman, a product of the Mean-| other property owned by H. G.!well system at Wisconsin, is start- | Watson on Montana Creek and ing his first year as head basket- | with taking certain property from ball coach at Washington and Lee. a cabin owned by J. F. Ross. The| ———————— closing arguments were made this, WILL PRESERVE BATTLEFIELD | afternoon and the case was due to have reached the jury about 4 p.m,[ MURFREEBORO, Tenn., Feb. 5. SR b P ! _After a lapse of almost 70 years SWISS PLAN AIR PROJECTS |work to preserve the trenches, gun! pits and breastworks erected inj GENEVA—A new Swiss compnny, | the battle of Stones River has be- | “Saguita,” working with the French ,gun. The 55th Congress authorized company. “Star,” plans to provide'a 3100 acre national military direct air connection, Geneva and park where 80,000 men fought dur-| Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, and Turin.'ing Christmas week of 1862. One Thousand Alaska i Conference Basketball’ Teams Under New Instructors its best years in 1930, system with| Ray Sermon, Al ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 5— Thousands of city dwellers are seeking homesteads in the West at the rate of from 400 to 600 a day, Land Office employes say. This same thing occurs in every period| During the fiscal year ending last of depression. June, 434550 homestead entries Most of the letters asking for |were recorded. ‘The year before homesteads come from thickly pop- there were 4,500,000. Land Office ulated centers of the East and Cen- |officials expect recordings will be tral United States, several million this year, Some letters have also been re- ceived from farmers of the East seeking a change while other re- quests are from the white collar class. NEW COACHES Reindeer for Canada - 'THOUSANDS OF | CITY DWELLERS Requests for Homesteads in West Pouring in to Land Oflice PORT ARTHUR Ontario, Feb. 5. |—N. H. Dimond, one of the own- \pany of St. Michael, Alaska, and |Charles Botesom, owners of the !Diamond Reindeer Ranch at Grand |Marais, Minnesota, have arrived at ,Lake Head to arrange grazing priv- |ileges in the Lake Nipgon area. The two men play to bring 1,000 |reindeer from Alaska shortly. They “sald the climate is suited to the! relndeer and moss is plentiful. SLAYER OF 3 J SEATTLE, Feb. 5. Laverne 'Clark aged 23, a Kent, Washing-| ton farmer, who shot and killed his wife, little son and Jack An- thony, his brother-in-law here yes-, then shot himself in the terday, temple, died last night cal hospiral FORMER RESIDENT OF JUNEAU DIES IN EAST William F. Ducey, former resident jof Juneau, who was employed by the Alaska Juneau, died on Janu- (Boyle, friend of the family. Death {was the result of an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Ducey was about 35 or 36 years of age. His wife was the| former Miss Sullivan, nurse in Ju- neau. Besides the widow, he is survived by a son John James Ducey and two sisters, Marian Ducey, Former- ly Court Librarian in Juneau, and Annette Ducey, also well known here. — e — BRUCE SCOTT IS SOUGHT |United States Marshal | White for the whereabouts of one Bruce Scott, reported to be here or in this vicinity. He is sought by F. A. Nighbert of Bakersfield, Cal., who claims to have information of value for Scott, SEEKING LAND ers of the Dimond Reindeer Com- | DIES HIMSELF in a lo- |tries Committee has come to. the |ccnc1uslon that its only chanus is |to organiza a small local company |for that purpose, Chairman C. 'T. 'Ga dner reported today. The Committee has had negotia- |tions with a large number of men ‘from other points. All of them readily acknowledged the opportun- (Continued an Page Six) | vote was 9 to 6. A contest impends in_the Senate. Action Is Unprecedented N Ihe ' measure was offered “by| History — Attorney Senator Capper. It would immed- P . | fately 1imit importation of crude General’s Views | petroleum to 16,000,000 barrels an- | nually for the next three years from January, 1931. | Importation of all refined prod- | ucts including by-products of fuel | oil are also. prohibited for three | years. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5—~The Senate has requested District Attorney Rover to insti- tute legal proceedings testing the right of George Otis Smith to remain in office as Chair- ‘Optimism . Displayed By Stalin | | Declares Soviet Union and Communism Soon Lead World MOSCOW, Feb. 5. — Commissiar | Stalin told the Industrial Congress that the five-year industrialization |plnn will be completed within four years. He said the Soviet will be the greatest agricultural nation in the world. Stalin said the Communist sys- tem has demonstrated it is the only system capable to withstand any economic crisis. He said Rus- sia has oil, iron, coal, grain and | cotton which makes possibilities for development better than any other {nation. He further said the world would soon look to Soviet as an advance guard against the capi- talist. man of the Federal Power Commission. Chairman Smith said it is highly satisfactory to have the Senate focus the recall on him in the interest of economy and if efficiency is served by having only cne member of five under fire. The Senate yesterday refusad to re-confirm Smith but did re-confirm Marcel Garsaud and Claud L. Draper. President Hoover said he was standing on the Attorney Gen- eral’s cpinion holding the Sen- ate is not authorized to recall a nomination for reconsidera- tion after having been con- firmed and cent to the Presi- dent. The President recently re- fused the Senate’s request to resubmit the names of the five Power Cemmissioners. The issue involved is unprg- cedented in American history. YOUNG SEEKING LARGE AMOUNT ' FOR VETERANS {Declares $500,000,000 Is Sufficient — Not Seeking Presidency | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5.— ,Owen D. Young, Chairman of the |General Electric, urged thz House Committee to le te a loan for as much as $500,000,000 to needy | {war veterans. Young told the House Ways and| Means @ommittee the loan would | not disrupt the economic conditions | of the country. | | e e ‘The coming rowing season willl Young told the newspapermen he mark the 25th year Richard A.|was not a candidate for President Glendon has coached the sport at|Referring to printed assertions he the United States Naval academy.|was connected with power inter-| i J LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 5 ary 29 in New York City, according jWanted: some place to put 3,700,000 000 cubic yards of dirt and rock (to advices received by Frank A.!cubic yards of rock and dirt. Notify | ito be gouged from the river lengineers for Hoover dam project | With waste land surrounding the dam site on every side, the engi- neers are still finding a baffling problem in planning removal of |excavated material. Sheer cliffs tower hundreds of feet above the Colorado river bed,| and loom as forbidding barriers to the removal of material to higher with future work, nor hamper nor- mal flow of water below the dam site. More than 75 prospective bidders BY BAKERSFIELD PARTY have been in Las Vegas to smdyjot material on the canyon walls, topographical conditions at the dam An inquiry has been received by |site, preparatory to making bids'equipment in the rough terrain. Albert | ‘Mueh 4 The ruggedness of surrounding the dam site, engineers say, pre- tsents enormous problems. ‘ Two coffer dams must be built WHERE TO THROW HUGE DAM’S DIRT PUZZLES BIDDERS ground, where it will not interfere which will be opened in Denver | (territory and the confined area of —————— |ests. He told the reporters: | “You are doing all you can to| '\keep me out of the Presidential race. Keep it up, you are doing me a favor.” ——————— 3 Texas “Lone” Scout Is Troop by Himself AUSTIN, Te: Feb. 5 | Crumley, 12-year-old Boy Scout !Summit, a community eight miles inorth of here lone scout in first. Otherwise some of the 1,800, — Elwah| bed ‘and canyon walls could be utilized /for the temporary barriers BAhs waie than one. Another 1,900,000 cubic He is 8o officially classified at must come out of the rock “"‘”';varea headquarters, and he is the ithemselves for the four diversion|only youth of scout age in the set- {tunnels, each 50 feet in diameter tjament. | {and approximately 4,000 feet long. A troop all by himself PI\\(\))\ Through these the turbulent waters| takes his hikes, builds his fires, of the Colorado will flow around|gstudies first ald and reports h |the dam site while comtructlon‘p,ogrw to Austin scout offic goes forward. |His father, J. B. Crumley, is Other physical disadvantages 10/ geout adviser. !be overcome, prospective bidders| |point out, are problems of trans- | portation across the river, delivery | yards his | | .- LABEL FOREIGN CARS BERLIN, Feb. 5—Hereafter every of machinery and foreign car brought into Germany must display, besides its number, an oval shaped plate showing the letters of its country of origin, such as US, for the United States, GB, for Great Britain, and for the Russian Soviet Union. The let- ter V. was allotted to the recently established Vaticen City State. \and location | While prospective bidders survey \the situation, a 20-mile railroad \spur from Boulder Junction to the government town site nears com- pletion. A power line is being built '!rom San Bernardino, Cal, to the ‘r'am site, 385 NOW BEEN CREASED Poison Murderer of Lover’s Provision- Made for Pur-| chase of Food If It Is Found Necessary WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 5. —A soluticn of the relief dead- lock appeared probable. today as negetiators resumed confer- ences to avoid an'exira ses- sion of Congress. A proposal has been made to increase the drought loan ap- propriation from $15,00000 to $60,000,000 with provisions that in emergency, part of the fund may be lcaned for food for pecple. This is the basis for a com- promise on the $25,000,000 fund voted by the Senate to give to the American Red Cross for relief work. ator Robinsen is said not anding upon technicali- - d President Hoover has said nething ccncerning the propo Yesterday, Senctor H: proposed a compromise that the $25,000,000 fund should not be used unless charitable or- ganizations found it impossible to administer relief without Congressional aid. TODAY'S STOCK 1 QUOTATIONS | »— e e ) NEW YORK, Feb. 5. — Closing quotation of Alnska Juneau mine stock today is 9, American Can |111%, Anaconda Copper 32%, Beth- |lehem Steel 51 General Motors Granby Consolidated 16, In- ernational Harvester 517:, Kenne- |cott Corporation 23'4, Packard Mo- tors 9':, Simmons Beds 16% dard California 47 Standard Oil of Hudson Bay Pacific Cur 4%, C -Wright 4% reneral Flr_‘LLx)L Uy, Gas and Electric 46'%, An Ralilroad 62%, W lectrical and Mechanic: , Stan- | Brands 18, Standard Oil of; Wife Is Now Safe to Be at Large SEATTLE, Feb. 5—Ruth Garri- son, poison murderer of Mrs. Doug- las Storrs, wife of Ruth’s sweet- heart, a deputy sheriff here, has been granted her freedom from the criminal insane ward of the State Penitentiary at Walla Walla after 12 years’ imprisonment. The jury in the Superior Court was out only one hour and thirty- three minutes after a three day hearing. Miss Garrison released. The jury decided Miss Garrison was a safe person to be at large. RETIRED CAGE ACE IS FAST ON COMEBACK | TULSA, Okla., Feb. 5—Two years ago, Forrest S. (Red) DeBernardi, known as one of the most colorful players in amateur independent basketball, announced his retire- ment. But he didn't stay retired. ‘This season he is staging a come- ,back with the Diamond Oilers of Tulsa, displaying a brana of play verging on the sensational. For six successive seasons “Dee™ was rated an All-American cenw ter. Among the title aggregations he led were the Kansas City Ath« letic club quintet and the Hilliards of St. Joseph, Mo., winners of Na- tional A. A. U. championships. —.—————— SKELETONS UNEARTHED PASADENA, Cal, Feb. 5—Skele- . was immediately of |New Jersey 47%, U. 8. Steel 138% |tons of small horses, of mountain sheep larger than those now living, and of both little and big camels are found Gipsum Cave, Ne- vada, the la can deposit of nn'hmonc remains. Shows Senute Approves Of 20 Per Cent Wine as Against 4 Per Cent Beer WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. § United States Senator Millard I Tydings, Democrat Maryland read a circular, advertisi con ates, yesterday in tr Senate, and asserted Senate would not permit of 4 per cent beer but is winking at 20 per cent wine, of Senater Tyding ed the __|Farm Board with aiding and abet- |ting erime by loaning $20,000,000 to the grape industry. The Senator read the -circular which said where to buy grape juice and how to handle it after it was bought. Senator Tydings also introduced an amendment to the Howell Dis- trict of Columbia Enforcement Bill to make wire tapping illegal.